Position in chronology
SAA 06 052. Šumma-ilani Buys 13 People (ADD 0246)
Translation — scholar edition
SAA 6(1) [Seal of ......], (2) [seal of ...], 'third man,' (3) [seal] of Atâ-qamuya, cohort commander, (4) [a]ll sons of Bel-Harran-taklak, gentlemen, owners of the people being sold. (stamp seal impressions) (6) Ahi-nuri, his wife and daughter, a total of 3; Mannu-ki-Ninua, his wife and 3 sons, a total of 5; Nabû-eṭir and his wife; Nabû-iddina and his wife; Nuraya; in all 13 persons — (10) Šumma-ilani has contracted, bought, purchased and acquired them for 6 1/2 minas of silver. (12) Those people are purchased and acquired. The money is paid completely. Any revocation, lawsuit, or litigation is…
State Archives of Assyria, volume 6 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
[NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x x x x x x] / [NA₄.KIŠIB mx x x x x] ⸢LÚv⸣.03-šú / [NA₄.KIŠIB] ma-⸢ta-a*—qa?⸣-mu-ia LÚv.GAL—ki-ṣir / ⸢PAB*⸣ A mEN—KASKAL—tak-lak / LÚ-MEŠ EN UN-MEŠ SUM-an / mŠEŠ—nu-ri ⸢DAM*⸣-šú DUMU.MÍ-šú PAB 03 / mman-nu—ki—NINA.KI MÍ-šú ⸢03*⸣ DUMU-MEŠ-šú* PAB 05 / mdPA—KAR MÍ-šú mdPA—MU MÍ-šú / mnu-ra-a.a PAB 13 ZI-MEŠ / ú-⸢piš⸣-ma mšúm-mu*—DINGIR-MEŠ / ina ⸢ŠÀ⸣-bi ⸢06 1/2⸣ MA.NA KUG.UD il-qi…
Scholarly note
Neo-Assyrian legal transaction at the royal court of Nineveh, edited by Theodore Kwasman & Simo Parpola (SAA 6, 1991). ORACC text P335193.
Attribution
Image: BM — (British Museum, London, UK) — from Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) — Photo via Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (cdli.earth/artifacts, P335193). source
Translation excerpted from Kwasman, T. & Parpola, S. 1991. Legal Transactions of the Royal Court of Nineveh, Part I: Tiglath-Pileser III through Esarhaddon. SAA 6. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa06/P335193/.
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